Barlaam the Calabrian

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conflict with

Gregoras

...however, Gregoras was, as was the custom, forced to retire to a nearby monastery. Gregoras emerged victorious in a philosophical disputation, accompanied by polemical tracts, against the monk Barlaam of Calabria, an outspoken Aristotelian scholastic, and was recognized as Constantinople’s leading academician. A theological controversy with deep political ramifications followed, in which...

Palamas

...theological dispute that lasted for a quarter of a century and involved polemics with a series of Greek and Latin scholastic theologians and certain rationalistic humanists. His first adversary was
Barlaam the Calabrian, a Greek monk residing in Italy who visited Constantinople and other Orthodox monastic centres to engage in philosophical disputation for intellectual prestige. Expounding a...

influence on Eastern Orthodox theology

...with an astonishing intellectual, spiritual, and artistic renaissance that influenced the entire Eastern Christian world. The renaissance was not without fierce controversy and polarization. In 1337
Barlaam the Calabrian, one of the representatives of Byzantine humanism, attacked the spiritual practices of the Hesychast (from the Greek word
hēsychia,...

opposition to Hesychasm

...the body,” in order to achieve a more total attention, and to “attach the prayer to their breathing.” This practice was violently attacked in the first half of the 14th century by
Barlaam the Calabrian, who called the Hesychasts
omphalopsychoi, or people having their souls in their navels.

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